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Letters Patent No. 90,458, dated May 25, 1869.

DEVICE ron SETTING WAGON-Trans.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom tt may concern:

Be it/known that I, FRANCIS MILLS, ,of Mount Vernon, in the county of Posey, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in lire- Setting Machines; and I do hereby declare that the` Y following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,

which will enable others skilled in the .art to make and use the saine, "reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for setting tires on wheels; and

, It consists mainly in providing a suitable frame or table, which is journalled in a stationary one, with rollers, to facilitate the turning of the wheel to which j is arranged on journals C, and so balanced that it will rest in a horizontal plane.

The said table is provided with a spindle, D, which l is designed to take into the eye of the hub, and with block E, of segmental form, for supporting the rim of the wheelrwhich is designed to be placed on the table B, to receive the tire, as represented in red.,

The said block is provided with the rollers F, to fa.- cilitate the turning of the wheels.

The block E is adjustable, t suit wheels of various sizes, by means of the slotted bar B, and, the pin D being also adjustable in holes made in the block H, the rim of thel wheel may always rest on the rollers F.

G represents a watentrough, connected to the projecting ends of the sills or lower timbers of the Stationary frame A, to receive the lower portion of the wheel, when the table is turned for the purpose.

The operation will be fully understood without further description.

I am'aware of the patent granted to Jacob Courtieyow, September 29, 1868, for a tire-setting and cool ing machine; but, as the same constitutes no part of my invention, I claim nothing therein shown or described.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patentllhe table B, provided with the rollers F, and arranged on the journals C, in the framing A, the pin l), adjustable in the block H, the seg-mentaLblock E,

adjustable by means of the slotted bar B, and then trough G, connected to the projecting ends of the sills of frame A, as and for the purpose herein described.

Witnesses: FRANCIS MILLS. J AMES W. WHITWOBTH, J oHN W. J ENKINs. 

